Jenny - Cute little girl who isn't scared of water and lights operating on their own.

Beth - Jenny's mother, any nudity on her part would have improved this movie.

Grant - The grandfather, he wears this weird "Jedi Bathrobe" outfit.

Ana - Grandma, and that's about it.

Steve - Ratty-haired kid, always referring to Grant as dad but I have no idea what's up with him.

Richard - Beth's husband, he spends most of the film just getting there.

The Plot:

Not only does this movie throw more bad special effects at you than a Battlestar Galactica episode it also has less plot. Cosmic events rip the fabric of time and space, which only affects a small area of desert in Southwest America... ...but that's not important. What is important is a senseless parade of special effects, stop motion dinosaurs, little green men, the vacuum cleaner of doom (VCOD), and lights turning on and off. Finally the characters of "Lost in this Movie" are taken in by an advanced alien civilization so the pain can end. I'm not going to say any more about this mess of a film.

Grant (distorted): "When I was out among you I always believed, as you did, that time exists in a sequential pattern. One day following another, one year after another, each century following the previous one - but it's not like that at all!"

I got this movie on DVD recently. Except for the deaus ex machina ending, I didn't think it was that bad. It plays out like a haunted house film, but instead of ghosts, it has a time warp. The FX weren't bad for thew time, just like the FX in Battlestar Galactica. Their stop motion is very smooth. Sure the matte paintings look like matte paintings, but the same goes for some of the matte paintings in Star Wars. Yes, the superimposition is a bit transparent, but it was the 70's. You could could either have thick, cartoony outlines, or a lil' bit-o transparency. Personally, I find the transparency less distracting.